May 10, 2013
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Success!!! (However Fleeting…)
Last evening Nancy and I were artfully arranged around the television in our customary positions of leisure when the God-awful Horrible Thing That Must Be Barked Away attacked the front of our house. Annie bolted off the couch and charged into to the dining room window where The Thing could best be seen and she said,
“BARK, bark….
And then–had there been pins falling somewhere in our home—we could have listened to their music.
Annie reappeared in the hallway where she was intently nosing something that very clearly should not have been left where it was.
And then she trotted back into the living room, hopped up on the couch and went back to sleep.
I have no idea what The Thing did. No more reports on its activity were filed.
It would appear that after 8 months, several dead ends and bad investments and a dizzying array of pointless human tricks, one small gray $39 box that makes noise I can’t hear when she barks at it may be enough to make her do just exactly that. Stop. Or, perhaps it repels the God-Awful Horrible Thing That Must Be Barked Away, which is fine.
It works!
This makes me smile because I had my doubts. I read the packaging. No less than four times the packaging for this box, which works by picking up the dog’s bark on its mike and returning a two second blast of noise in an octave I cannot hear warns:
May not be effective on deaf or hearing-impaired dogs.
No rocket science involved here. I figured that any devise that needed to warn me four times that a loud noise might not startled a deaf dog might not be functioning at a level of sophistication sufficient to outsmart Annie.
It would appear I was wrong.
